Monday, June 16, 2008

EU treaty: What next

Even before the official result had been declared, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, announced that the Lisbon Treaty was not dead and that ratification would continue. One by one, the various national leaders put out statements to the same effect.

"It is not truly democratic that less than a million people should decide the fate of half a billion Europeans", said the leader of the Euro-Greens, Daniel Cohn-Bendit.

Well, then, how about allowing the others to hold referendums, too? This, of course, is the last thing that the EU wants. Its leaders now understand that they cannot win anywhere.

How, then, can they keep their constitution? First,they will push through as much as they can under the existing dispensation.

To a large degree this has already happened. Many of the institutions that would have been created by the constitution have already been established in anticipation of a "Yes" vote: the Human Rights Agency, the External Borders Agency, the Defence Agency.

When asked what legal base these bodies have, Eurocrats point to a flimsy cat's cradle of commission communiqués and council resolutions. The question naturally arises: if they already had the authority to create these institutions, why did they need to write them into the Lisbon Treaty?

But that question will ultimately be answered by the European Court of Justice, which rarelylets the letter of the law stand in the way of deeper union.

About 85 per cent of the treaty can be pushed through this way. I can think of only three aspects of the treaty that cannot be secured through lawyerly creativity: the European president; the new representation levels in the commission and council; and "legal personality" for the EU – that is, the right to sign treaties as a sovereign state.

This last looks like being the sole casualty of the Irish "No". The other two will be agreed at an intergovernmental conference next year.

Ireland will be told that, since this is a rearrangement of the existing institutions, and not a transfer of power from the nations to Brussels, there is no need for a plebiscite.And so, two years from now, we will have 99 per cent of the constitution. But there will not be any more referendums. The people have forfeited their leaders' confidence.

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The Phoenix Is Rising, Watch the EU!

Watch This Development: The Large Hadron Collider

First atom smashed in Hadron Collider - Yahoo!7 News"Two circulating beams have produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists announced."... "The LHC took nearly 20 years to construct and aims to resolve physics enigmas such as an explanation for 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' that account for 96 per cent of the cosmos and whether other dimensions exist parallel to our own.

The Holy Grail will be finding a theorised component called the Higgs Boson, which would explain how particles acquire mass. The frustratingly elusive Higgs has been dubbed the 'God particle'."

Consider This

THE SEVEN SEALS OF REVELATION

Future News According to the Book of Revelation

The rise of the First Beast, the revived Holy Roman Empire, Watch the phenomenal growth of the European Union.

The Second Beast, the False Prophet performs exceedingly mighty signs and declares himself God. Watch this great european religious leader as he progressively assumes the status of god. Symbolically rides astride the First Beast.

The Muslim nations unite against the the Holy Roman Empire/False Prophet rule.

The War between the First Beast and the King of the South, the confederation of Muslim nations results in victory to the First Beast.

The 2 Beasts take over Jerusalem.

The False Prophet replaces Jewish animal sacrifices with pagan rituals. Abomination of Desolation instituted. The start of the Great Tribulation.

The Tsitcz: The Golden Crown of the High Priest

The Temple

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The Third Temple

Current efforts to rebuild the Temple

Although in mainstream Orthodox Judaism the rebuilding of the Temple is generally left to the coming of the Jewish Messiah and to Divine Providence, a number of organizations, generally representing a small minority of even Orthodox Jews, have been formed with the objective of realizing the immediate construction of a Third Temple in present times.

As part of its ongoing effort to prepare for a future rebuilt Temple, the Temple Institute has been preparing ritual objects suitable for Temple use.